A brilliant Nigerian lady named Aneke Chinwendu Francisca has bagged a Microbiology degree at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria with honors. She won 6 awards as the overall best student of her department.
Chiwendu obtained a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology at the University of Nigeria Nsukka Enugu Nigeria. She graduated as the best-graduating student in the university’s Microbiology department.
She shared her achievement of graduating from the university on her LinkedIn adding that she was also inducted into the Nigeria Society for Microbiology.
Aside from winning the overall best-graduating Student of her department, she also won the best student in five of her major courses and the best in her three years.
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Chiwendu was awarded the best in Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Medical Microbiology, Industrial, Food Microbiology, and Environmental Microbiology. She also won an award for scoring the highest cumulative grade points in her first, second, and third years at the university.
She that while a student, she conducted research that explored sustainable alternatives to chemical insecticides for her undergraduate thesis. Chiwendu said her research focused on entomopathogenic fungi, a biological form of insect control.
She mentioned studying these small living things alone, testing how they make protease, identifying the many useful chemicals they can create, and examining the genetic makeup of the most promising one.
Chiwendu said she was excited to have worked on a topic with the potential to help curb the effects of the use of chemical insecticides such as environmental pollution, numerous health hazards resulting from insects, and chemical persistence in her environment.
She expressed her gratitude to her family, friends, and the entire staff of the Department of Microbiology, UNN especially her wonderful supervisor, Uchenna Oyeagu whose support and insights were valuable throughout the academic journey.
Chiwendu stated that she is looking forward to a future where more fungi-based solutions can be explored as alternatives to chemical insecticides.
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